Josef Müller-Marein

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Josef Müller-Marein (born September 12, 1907 in Marienheide ; † October 17, 1981 in Thimory near Lorris , France) was a German journalist and writer . From 1957 to 1968 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In the Zeit -Feuilleton he wrote under the pseudonym "Jan Molitor".

life and work

Growing up in Cologne, he studied in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, according to his own statement "in addition to music and theater studies, in addition to a little literature and psychology, the practice of music".

From 1932 Müller-Marein with the first name Jupp worked for the publishing houses Ullstein and Scherl , which were taken over by the National Socialist Eher publishing house in 1937 and 1943 respectively. Until she was hired in 1934, he was also a music critic for the Vossische Zeitung . From 1934 he worked for the Scherl daily newspaper Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger . In addition, Müller-Marein wrote for dedicated National Socialist newspapers, the Völkischer Beobachter and the weekly newspaper " Das Reich ". During the Second World War he was an officer in the Air Force . 1943-1944 he worked there as a war correspondent .

His book Hell over France. Our air squadron on the attack with “bombastic descriptions that are true to the line” appeared in 1940, and later he published the illustrated booklet “ Panzer abutt zum Meer ” in the German youth war library .

In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Müller-Marein tried briefly as a bandmaster at a British soldiers' stage in Lübeck. In 1946 he was initially the only professional journalist reporter for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . His critical reports appear there under the pseudonym Jan Molitor. He published some reports under the title Cavalcade (1948).

In 1954 the editor-in-chief Richard Tüngel dismissed Müller-Marein because he had opposed his reactionary course. He had u. a. published a critical commentary by NWDR correspondent Peter von Zahn about the controversial Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy without permission . In 1957 Müller-Marein became the successor to the politically controversial Tüngel. In the years up to 1968, when Müller-Marein ran the paper, he made it Germany's most important liberal weekly newspaper. He increased the printed circulation from 48,000 to almost 300,000 copies. In 1968 he handed over the editor-in-chief to Marion Countess Dönhoff . Müller-Marein stayed with the times as an author and columnist.

He showed himself to be a cheerful essayist. a. in Germany, your Westphalia (1972). Müller-Marein also published landscape and country observations (including his second home France) in diary form and humorous ballads ( Who blows twice in the bag , 1967).

Müller-Marein gained additional fame through the self-portraits of famous artists he supervised , first on the radio , later within the record series Narrated Life and on television. He had a bestseller with the grotesque The Duck Trial (1961) .

In 1957, Müller-Marein presented the first programs for the TV magazine Panorama . In 1970 he supported the establishment of the Zeit magazine .

Publications (selection)

  • Hell over France. Our air squadrons on the attack. Steiniger, Berlin 1940.
  • Tanks hit the sea. The tank battle in front of Namur and the advance through France. Text drawings by Wilhelm Baitz (= War Library of the German Youth, Issue 52). Steiniger, Berlin [1941].
  • Cavalcade 1947 . Dulk, Hamburg 1948.
  • The duck trial - a grotesque one . With 23 drawings by Paul Flora , Nannen, Hamburg 1961.
  • Germany in the year 1 - Panorama 1946 - 1948 . Nannen, Hamburg 1960, ISBN 978-3-921909-87-4 .
  • Diary from the west . Wegner, Hamburg 1963.
  • With Catherine Krahmer: 25 times France . Piper, Munich a. a. 1977.
  • With Hannes Reinhardt: The musical self-portrait of composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers of our time . Nannen Verlag, Hamburg 1963 (with discography pp. 461–497; with 55 photos on 32 art print panels by Elfriede Broneder and others).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heinz Starkulla jr .:  Müller-Marein, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 504 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. Chronicle of Time . In: Die Zeit , No. 8/2006